The True Story Behind Hidden Figures - and the Real Women Who Helped Launch the First U.S. Astronaut into Orbit

When the cast of Hidden Figures took home the 2017 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture on Sunday, Taraji P. Henson thanked the three women who inspired the film. "We stand on the shoulders of three American heroes," Henson said. "Without them we would not be able to reach the stars." The credit for these women is long overdue. Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan were African-American mathematicians who played an integral part in NAS...